43rd Annual Melrose Arts and Crafts Festival this weekend

Members of The Association for the Preservation of Historic Natchitoches (APHN) are busy getting the grounds ready, marking vendor locations and taking care of the
hundreds of details required to host this huge Arts and Crafts Show and Sale. The gates open Saturday, April 22 for show guests and again Sunday, April 23 at 10 a.m. The gate fee is only $5 and $2 for children ages 6 – 11. Guests will enjoy their tour of the grounds featuring nine historic buildings, giant live oak trees and viewing the hand made creations representing a wide variety of vendor talents. Guests will enjoy tasty foods and see unique jewelry, toys, pottery, clothing, photography, plants, woodworking products and a big variety of other arts and crafts.

Melrose is located in southern Natchitoches parish at 3533 Highway 119, Melrose, LA 71457 and is approximately 17 miles south of the town of Natchitoches.